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First post, by buckeye

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Based on the rail ratings any reason this one won't work with slot 1 motherboards? Intel SE440-BX/2 specifically. See attached pic.

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Reply 1 of 19, by Radical Vision

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If you will use something like PII with not very powerful Video card it will be good for your needs.
Of course this PSU soes not have the best +5V but is ok for PII and something like Coppermine, but Tualatins will need something that have like 25 amps on +5V.
Also if you want to know what to look for older builds look the amps of the +5V on a PSU as that is the raild that old hardware is using.

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Reply 3 of 19, by cyclone3d

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^It would've been next to impossible to find a PSU rated that low (18A) in Pentium I-III times, but it'll probably do.

At the same time, most of the PSUs back then were super crappy quality-wise and were rated way above what they could actually put out because there were no hardware review sites such as Hardocp.com that actually did any type of real power supply testing.

Even the newer cheapo power supplies are rated for way above what they can actually put out without releasing the magic smoke or having good power regulation overall even at lower power loads.

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Reply 4 of 19, by gdjacobs

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Call it 10-12 amps total 5V rail draw for a basic Tualatin system including the motherboard, and some peripherals. A high performance video card add significant draw, but comparatively little on the 5V rail.

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Reply 6 of 19, by buckeye

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Well, gave up on the newer Thermaltake and tried the Antec SL350 in my other Win98 rig. Lo and behold, it fired up the 850 P3/SE440-BX2 combo no problem. Below is the rail ratings for the Antec:

+5V - 35A
+12 - 16A
+3.3 - 28A
-5V - 0.5A
-12V - 0.8A
+5VSB - 2.0A

Can anyone tell me which of these enabled the Antec to boot the system where the Thermaltake could not?

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Reply 9 of 19, by Ozzuneoj

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Based on the ratings, that's a horrible power supply. Thermaltake PSUs have basically always been junk unless you bought something very high end. Don't let the enthusiast styling fool you. Seriously, those rails are pathetic for a 350w rated power supply... I wouldn't be surprised if there were leaky caps and missing safety features in that thing.

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Reply 10 of 19, by Tetrium

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buckeye wrote:
Well, gave up on the newer Thermaltake and tried the Antec SL350 in my other Win98 rig. Lo and behold, it fired up the 850 P3/SE […]
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Well, gave up on the newer Thermaltake and tried the Antec SL350 in my other Win98 rig. Lo and behold, it fired up the 850 P3/SE440-BX2 combo no problem. Below is the rail ratings for the Antec:

+5V - 35A
+12 - 16A
+3.3 - 28A
-5V - 0.5A
-12V - 0.8A
+5VSB - 2.0A

Can anyone tell me which of these enabled the Antec to boot the system where the Thermaltake could not?

Like others have said, it's possible your other PSU is defective. The crossload thingy may also be the culprit.

This Antec has rails that look almost perfect for even an Athlon XP 😁
Personally I've never used PSUs on anything s370 or Slot 1 with less then 25A on the 5v line, unless it had very few parts or some really low-power parts (like a Virge or something 🤣)

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Reply 11 of 19, by gdjacobs

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I run my Ezra Slot 1 build with a lower capacity PSU, but it could probably be powered by a hamster wheel.

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Reply 12 of 19, by Cyberdyne

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Strange thing is, that i have had never no problems, with using some cheap crappy noname(Codegen) 250-350W ATX PSU-s with all my retro computers, from 486 to Pentium 3. Come on, CPU wattage went up high in Pentium 4 AMD Athlon era, not tulatin era, and i usually use maximum Geforce TNT2M64, MX or FX5200 video cards....

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Reply 13 of 19, by CkRtech

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There is a bit of a grey cloud representing the phrase "it works" for a given PSU. There could be a noisy PSU that meets the power draw requirements and the components seem to handle everything OK. There could also be a rather barebones PSU that works and has no protection inside. There could be a PSU that is delivering more current than it should be yet still seems to function.

Each one of those scenarios can go from benign to nightmare at any point. So it just depends on how lucky one feels.

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Reply 14 of 19, by Tetrium

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CkRtech wrote:

There is a bit of a grey cloud representing the phrase "it works" for a given PSU. There could be a noisy PSU that meets the power draw requirements and the components seem to handle everything OK. There could also be a rather barebones PSU that works and has no protection inside. There could be a PSU that is delivering more current than it should be yet still seems to function.

Each one of those scenarios can go from benign to nightmare at any point. So it just depends on how lucky one feels.

I've had the same with people telling me their PC worked "just fine" with that PSU.
I was always of the more safe approach. And besides, back then it was easy to find any ATX PSU that had at least 25A on the 5v line, so why not use them?
I tended to mostly use FSP as these were cheap and many people didn't realize this and wanted Antec. And FSP was used in many OEMs so easy to find as well.

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Reply 15 of 19, by Radical Vision

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FSP PSU are builded well, but only problem on them is the trash capacitors, that when they are not even leaked, they start to make problems, restarting, no stability, as the caps have lost their spec long time ago, and now they stay in the PSU only for decoration, not to do any real work, and that is not 1,2 or 3 units i faced so far, they are all like that. So better is to use Delta units that have 100% japan caps, or Enermax, as Enermax have also trash capacitors, but they seems to be build very well, so that does not make problems even after so many years...

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Reply 16 of 19, by The Serpent Rider

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Thermaltake PSUs

They're just rebranded PSUs from multiple companies with varying quality. Personally I use Thermaltake XP480 and XP550 PSUs for old hardware, which are good 250W-300W rebranded HEC PSUs.

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Reply 17 of 19, by buckeye

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buckeye wrote:
Well, gave up on the newer Thermaltake and tried the Antec SL350 in my other Win98 rig. Lo and behold, it fired up the 850 P3/SE […]
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Well, gave up on the newer Thermaltake and tried the Antec SL350 in my other Win98 rig. Lo and behold, it fired up the 850 P3/SE440-BX2 combo no problem. Below is the rail ratings for the Antec:

+5V - 35A
+12 - 16A
+3.3 - 28A
-5V - 0.5A
-12V - 0.8A
+5VSB - 2.0A

Can anyone tell me which of these enabled the Antec to boot the system where the Thermaltake could not?

More confusion/frustration! Just a bought a Antec SL400 with the same specs as above except:

+5V - 38A
+12V - 18A

Wont fire up the SE440-BX2/P3 850 config. Psu & gpu fans run but as for the cpu - nothing. Now here's the kicker, hooked up the same psu to my other win98 system (see sig) and it fired up no problem. This is really turning into a "crap shoot". So my solution right now is just swap psu's but would like to know why it's working out like this. Is the Intel SE440-BX2 picky when it comes to power supplies?

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Reply 18 of 19, by bjwil1991

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Check the capacitors to see if they bulged or spewed electrolytic on the board (or on top of the caps), check for cold or cracked solder points and reflow with fresh solder if needed. My i430TX Socket 7 board does that sometimes as well, but, I'm planning on installing the 24-pin ATX without the -5v to 20-pin ATX with the -5v for certain ISA cards, as well as some chipsets into the system and see what happens. I did test the voltage on the PSU, and it passed with flying colors.

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Reply 19 of 19, by cyclone3d

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Definitely check the caps on that Antec PSU. I used to use Antec pretty much exclusively until they all started having problems with the caps.

The ones I fixed have not given me any more problems, but I had to run wires in order to use larger sized caps in some of them because of the crappy smaller than normal caps that were used and I was unable to find any good caps that would fit in the original location.

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